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十大年度最佳儿童英文绘本

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一、《大熊小椅子》(Big Bear Little Chair)

Written and illustrated by Lizi Boyd

故事、绘图:利兹·博伊德(Lizi Boyd)

This ingenious take on the “opposites” book shows the youngest children that big, little and tiny are all in how you look at things. Using just black, white and a velvety gray, with a bit of red, Boyd’s delightful cut paper compositions juxtapose the large and the small in unexpected ways: a “big meadow” is big because it’s full of small flowers; a “big seal” towers over a “tiny castle” that’s made of sand.

该书巧妙地通过“对立”,向低龄儿童展示了“大、小和微小”的区别在于看待事物的方式。博伊德仅仅使用黑、白、柔和的灰,以及一点点红色,搭配赏心 悦目的剪纸图案,以出人意料的方式并列呈现了大小事物:一片“大草地”很大,因为草地上满是小花朵;在用沙子建造的“微小城堡”前,高耸着一只“大海 豹”。

(绘本,适合3至5岁)

二、《精致甜品:四个世纪,四个家庭,一种美味》(A Fine Dessert: Four Centuries, Four Families, One Delicious Treat)

By Emily Jenkins. Illustrated by Sophie Blackall.

故事:艾米莉·詹金斯(Emily Jenkins)。绘图:苏菲·布莱科尔(Sophie Blackall)。

Four vignettes, set in England, South Carolina, Boston and San Diego, show how the creamy dessert called blackberry fool has been made and enjoyed over the centuries. Our reviewer, John Lithgow, called out the book’s “abundant charms.” Blackall’s warm, finely detailed illustrations — done in ink, watercolor and blackberry juice — capture the sweep of history and the constancy of family love.

书中描绘了四个小片段,分别发生在英格兰、南卡罗来纳州、波士顿和圣迭戈,这些片段讲述了数百年来,人们制作和品尝一种名为“黑莓傻瓜” (blackberry fool)的奶油甜点的历史。评审员约翰·利思戈(John Lithgow)称该书“魅力十足”。布莱科尔用墨水、水彩和黑莓汁绘制了温暖而精细的插画,展现了历史的跨越和亲情的延绵。

(绘本,适合4至8岁)

三、《滑稽的骨头:波萨达和他的亡灵节骷髅》(Funny Bones: Posada and His Day of the Dead Calaveras)

By Duncan Tonatiuh

故事:邓肯·托纳蒂乌(Duncan Tonatiuh)

This biography of the Mexican artist, who popularized calaveras both as a form of political protest and a popular entertainment, integrates Posada’s own prints with Tonatiuh’s winsome, cleverly layered compositions. “Befitting its subject, the book communicates through its visual aesthetic,” Maria Russo wrote. “Tonatiuh’s eye-catching earth-toned digital collages, with occasional blasts of dusky purple or blue, feature people who look like the swoopy, postmodern descendants of Mexican folk figures.”

本书是墨西哥艺术家波萨达的传记。波萨达普及了骷髅艺术(calaveras),使其既成为政治抗议的一种形式,又成为一种大众娱乐的方式。书中将 波萨达的作品和托纳蒂乌可爱、巧妙的分层图案融合在一起。“这本书通过视觉美感来表达,与它的主题非常契合,”玛丽亚·罗素(Maria Russo)写道。“托纳蒂乌用引人注目的土地色调的数字拼贴,搭配少量暗紫色或蓝色,让人物看起来像是墨西哥传说人物的后现代后裔,有平滑的线条。”

(绘本,适合6至10岁)

四、《雷欧:幽灵的故事》(Leo: A Ghost Story)

By Mac Barnett. Illustrated by Christian Robinson.

故事:麦克·巴内特(Mac Barnett)。绘图:克里斯蒂安·罗宾逊(Christian Robinson)

Leo, a little ghost drawn touchingly by Robinson as an improbably sweet and hopeful-looking crayoned outline, feels unwanted in the house he is haunting. So he moves to the city, where he befriends a girl who thinks he’s strictly imaginary. After Leo thwarts a robbery, his real — that is, ghostly — status is affirmed. Our reviewer, Marjorie Ingall, praised Robinson’s “exciting” art. “I love the palette of ‘Leo,’” she wrote. “Black, white, gray and various shades of moody blue, in a mix of acrylic paint and chunky -construction-paper collage.”

雷欧是一个小幽灵。罗宾逊用动人的笔触,将他绘制成一个极为可爱、看起来充满希望的蜡笔轮廓。雷欧觉得,在他游荡的房子里,大家都不喜欢他。于是他 搬到城市,和一个女孩交上朋友,女孩以为雷欧只是自己的想象。雷欧阻挠了一次抢劫,他作为幽灵的真实性得到了确定。评审员玛乔丽·因加尔 (Marjorie Ingall)称赞,罗宾逊的绘画很“精彩”。她写道:“我喜欢《雷欧》的配色,白、灰和各种色调的蓝黑色,以及丙烯酸颜料和厚实纸张拼贴的'组合。”

(绘本,适合3至5岁)

五、《埃菲尔夫人:埃菲尔铁塔的爱情故事》(Madame Eiffel: The Love Story of the Eiffel Tower)

By Alice Brière-Haquet. Illustrated by Csil.

故事:爱丽丝·布希耶-阿各特(Alice Brière-Haquet)。绘图:塞希尔(Csil)

In this imaginative telling of the story behind the Eiffel Tower, the engineer Gustave Eiffel is inspired by his love for his ailing wife, Cathy. With a strict palette of black and white with dabs of light rosy red, Csil’s intricate, lacy pen-and-ink illustrations convey Eiffel’s keen attention to detail, along with the allure of Paris and the high-flying ambition of his tower. The effect is romantic and utterly charming, inviting you to look and look at the pages.

本书讲述了作者想象的艾菲尔铁塔背后的故事:工程师居斯塔夫·埃菲尔(Gustave Eiffel)对病妻凯西(Cathy)的爱激发了他的灵感。塞希尔用严格的黑白配色,加上少许浅玫瑰红,勾画出错综复杂的繁复笔墨插图,展示了埃菲尔对 细节的敏锐,再加上巴黎的魅力以及铁塔承载的雄心壮志,整体效果浪漫迷人,引人入胜。

(绘本,适合4至8岁)

六、《独生小孩》(The Only Child)

Written and illustrated by Guojing

故事、绘图:郭景

A small child is left alone all day to fend for herself. She dozes off on a city bus and wakes in an unknown forest, a silvery fantasyland up in the clouds where she bonds with a flying deer, enormous whales and a seal pup. Our reviewer, Samantha Hunt, was enchanted by this “dreamy, wordless debut,” lovingly illustrated with smoky, mystical-looking pencil drawings. “The dark current flowing underneath such lush imagery,” Hunt wrote, “is the loneliness of childhood under China’s one-child policy.”

一个小姑娘一整天都要自己照顾自己。她在城市里的公交车上睡着了,醒来时来到了一片未知的森林里。那是云朵上面的一个银色梦境。在那里,她和会飞的 鹿、大鲸鱼和一只小海豹建立起了感情。这本“梦幻题材的无字处女作”让评审员萨曼莎·亨特(Samantha Hunt)沉醉在其中。书中的插图都是烟雾朦胧、看上去有些神秘的铅笔画。“美丽的图画背后涌动的暗流,”亨特说,“是中国一胎政策下童年的孤独。”

(绘本,适合5至9岁)

七、《臭鼬》(The Skunk)

By Mac Barnett. Illustrated by Patrick McDonnell.

故事:马克·巴尼特(Mac Barnett)绘图:帕特里克·麦当奈尔(Patrick McDonnell)

32 pp. Roaring Brook Press. $17.99. (Picture book; ages 4 to 8)

共32页,咆哮溪出版社(Roaring Brook Press)。17.99美元。

(绘本,适合4至8岁)

八、《路边的鲜花》(Sidewalk Flowers)

By JonArno Lawson. Illustrated by Sydney Smith.

故事:琼阿诺·劳森(JonArno Lawson) 绘图:西德尼·史密斯(Sydney Smith)

“Something to treasure,” our reviewer, Carmela Ciuraru, called this dazzlingwordless book. As a girl and her father walk home through city streets, she notices flowers sprouting in unexpected places. She picks them, accumulating a bouquet that she distributes to a dog, a dead bird, a homeless man and finally, back home, her sleeping toddler sibling. In Smith’s elegant and moving drawings, as Ciuraru wrote, “the only pop of color on the first page is the girl’s bright red hoodie, redolent of Peter’s snowsuit in Ezra Jack Keats’s ‘The Snowy Day.’ More color suffuses these pages as the pair gets closer to home.”

评审员卡尔梅拉·丘拉鲁(Carmela Ciuraru)对这本令人惊叹的绘本的评价是“值得珍藏”。一个小女孩和父亲穿过城市的街道步行回家。她发现,一些意想不到的地方长出了鲜花。她把献花 采来做成花束,分给了一条狗、一只死鸟、一个流浪汉和家里已经睡着了的弟弟。正如丘拉鲁所写的那样,史密斯的插图简洁感人,“第一页上唯一的色彩是小女孩 鲜红的连帽衫,让人想起了埃兹拉·杰克·济慈(Ezra Jack Keats)《雪天》(The Snowy Day)里彼得穿的风雪服。随着两人离家越来越近,书页上的颜色越来越丰富。”

26 pp. Groundwood Books/House of Anansi Press. $16.95. (Picture book; ages 3 to 8)

共26页。格朗伍德/阿南西出版公司(Groundwood Books/House of Anansi Press)。16.95美元。

(绘本,适合3至8岁)

九、《想当国王的老虎》(The Tiger Who Would Be King)

By James Thurber. Illustrated by JooHee Yoon.

故事:詹姆斯·瑟伯(James Thurber) 绘图:尹珠熙(JooHee Yoon,音)

Thurber’s 1956 comic fable about a power-mad tiger who starts a deadly war is vibrantly illustrated by Yoon in a dense, blocky print style, all in an electric red, a cool blue-green, black and white. Each page teems with evocative images of animal life. The effect is ferocious and ravishing, capturing the beastliness of war along with emotions that include pride, boredom, shock and sorrow.

本书是瑟伯1956年推出的一个漫画寓言故事,讲的是一只痴迷于权力的老虎发起一场大战的故事。尹珠熙的插图色彩鲜艳,全都是鲜亮的红色、冷静的蓝 绿色、黑色和白色,印刷风格的色块密集地挤在一起。每一页都满是令人思绪飞扬的动物生活场景。画面冲击感强烈,令人陶醉,既刻画出了战争的残暴,又表现出 了骄傲、厌倦、震惊和悲伤等情感。

(适合所有年龄)

十、《特里基·维克:一个卖埃菲尔铁塔的人的真实故事》(Tricky Vic: The Impossibly True Story of the Man Who Sold the Eiffel Tower)

By Greg Pizzoli

故事:格雷格·皮佐利(Greg Pizzoli)

This biography of the legendary con man who once managed to sell the Eiffel Tower bursts with cheeky wit and verve. We follow Tricky Vic, as he was known, from his birth as Robert Miller in what is now the Czech Republic to his death in a federal prison in Missouri. In one of many comic touches, a thumbprint stands in for Tricky Vic’s head. “Pizzoli’s jocular, simple but graphically sophisticated collage illustrations draw readers even further into a story it would be hard to be bored by,” Maria Russo wrote.

本书是一本传记,主人公是一个传奇骗子,曾经成功地卖掉了埃菲尔铁塔。书中充满了诙谐的玩笑,笔触充满活力,介绍了主人公从出生到离世的一生。他出 生时叫罗伯特·米勒(Robert Miller),后被世人称作特里基·维克。他生于现在的捷克,在密苏里州的一座联邦监狱走到了生命的尽头。书中有浓厚的漫画气息,其中一处是用指纹代表 特里基·维克的脑袋。“这是一个很难让人感到厌烦的故事,皮佐利风趣、简单却又精美生动的拼贴插图吸引着读者一步步深入,”玛利亚·拉索(Maria Russo)写道。

(绘本,适合7至10岁)

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1、《他们坚强而善良》

由美国儿童文学家、插画家罗伯特・劳森创作,获得1941凯迪克大奖金奖。作为1941年度“凯迪克奖” 的金奖获得者,罗伯特・劳森在这本经典图书中,描绘了他的家庭穿越美国历史的旅程路径。

劳森把他的先辈们介绍给了我们,让我们身临其境地和他们一起,勇敢地面对加勒比海的暴风雨,旅行到纽约的码头市场,并且参加了美国南北战争。

在这些历险中,劳森的祖父母们相遇、结婚并且养育家庭。后来,他的父母也遵循了同样的生命循环。

但本书不仅仅是一个家庭的故事,它还是一部关于美国的社会发展简史。它提醒我们要为我们的祖先而感到自豪――知道他们是谁,他们都做了些什么,他们对我们今天所居住的这个国家发挥了怎样的作用。

正如作者表达的那样:他们中没有一个是伟大的或著名的,但是他们坚强而善良。他们辛勤劳作,养育了很多的孩子。他们所有的人帮助美国成为了现今这样一个伟大的国家。

2、《让路给小鸭子》

作者是美国的麦克洛斯基,译者是柯倩华。该书主要画了一个警察拦下所有车辆,护送排成一排的鸭子过马路的温情脉脉的故事。

1942年获得美国凯迪克金牌奖。

3、《驴小弟变石头》

作者是(美国)威廉・史塔克。该书主要讲述驴小弟捡到一块愿望的魔石。驴小弟被突然遇到的狮子吓着了,他下意识的想法却带来了意想不到的结果的故事。

1970年获得凯迪克金奖。

4、《小猫咪追月亮》

作者是美国凯文・汉克斯。该书匠心独具,以独特的视角讲述了孩子纯真的心境,是一本适合4岁以下亲子共读的图画书。

2005年获得凯迪克金奖。

5、《如果你想当总统》

作者是美国朱蒂丝・圣乔治、大卫・司摩。2001年凯迪克金牌奖获奖绘本,经过画家的修正升级,增加了小布什总统的介绍,将美国过往43任总统以各种各样有趣的角度介绍给读者。

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找图网――凯迪克大奖

身份:英国著名的女画家

出生地:66 Waddon Road in Croydon, Surrey, England

家庭背景:家中的小女儿,有一个大她两岁的姐姐――Dorothy Oswald Barker。父亲Walter Barker, 是一个业余的艺术家(a partner in a seed supply company and an amateur artist),母亲Mary Eleanor (Oswald) Barker。

儿时患有癫痫症(epileptic),无法上学,只能在家接受教育,并通过阅读和绘画消磨大部分时间。Kate Greenaway 和 Randolph Caldecott对她后来作品影响很大。

Life Line:

1895年6月28日,出生在英国(Croydon, Surrey, England)

1908年,Cicely13岁时,她的父亲参加了Croydon艺术社团,她也因此学习了专业的艺术课程。参加了the Croydon School of Art的晚间课程(evening class)

15岁时,她的花仙作品就被刊登在杂志、贺卡和明信片上。

1911年 Raphael Tuck & Sons bought four of Barker's "little drawings" for half a sovereign,[3] and published them as postcards.作品被买下并出版,时年16岁。

同年十月,她赢得了一个海报比赛(the Croydon Art Society's poster competition)的第二名,被吸纳成为Croydon艺术社团中最年轻的成员 。In October 1911, she won second prize in the Croydon Art Society's poster competition, and shortly afterward was elected the youngest member of the Society.[2]

1912年6月,她的父亲离世了。17岁的玛丽巴克向杂志投稿,用她的画作努力地支撑着母亲和姐姐的生活。

In the late 1920s, Barker began to doubt she was doing enough for the church and considered focusing solely on sacred works. Family and friends recommended she continue secular and sacred works, which she did.[8]

Barker continued to attend evening classes at the Croydon Art School between the 1920s and the 1940s, eventually receiving a teaching position. She took sketching trips to Amberley and Storrington in Sussex and to Cornwall and the southern coast with family and friends. She visited and stayed with artist Margaret Tarrant in Gomshall, Surrey and with family in Ugglebarnby, Near Whitby, North Yorkshire.

In 1940, the Barker's live-in maid retired, and Dorothy Barker closed her school at the back of the house in The Waldrons. She continued to supervise the household, and to give both her mother and sister the care they needed. Dorothy and her sister collaborated upon only two books: Our Darling's First Book and the Christian-themed, He Leadeth Me. In 1954 Dorothy Barker died of a heart attack. Barker was unable to pursue her art to any significant extent following her sister's death, as all the care of her aged mother devolved upon her, but she did manage to begin planning a stained glass window design in her sister's memory for St. Edmund's, Pitlake.[9]

1923年,她的画作《flower fairies of the spring》正式出版。更多人喜欢了她的花仙子。玛丽巴克同时开始了字母表精灵的创作。 每个字母都会有一个对应的花仙,孩子们如此喜爱这些花精灵。这成为了玛丽巴克最为重要的创作。直到现在孩子们还在使用这些带有花仙精灵的字母表。

Cicely随后绘制了更多花仙系列:Flower Fairies of the Summer、Flower Fairies of the Autumn、Flower Fairies of the Winter、Fairies of the Trees、Flower Fairies of the Garden、Flower Fairies of the Wayside、The Flower Fairy Alphabet。除了花仙系列,Cicely也为童书绘制了插画,如A Little Book of Old Rhymes、Groundsel and Necklaces、以及The Lord of the Rushie River等。现在,除了印刷品外,Cicely的小花仙还被制作成各种礼品像框、瓷偶、水晶球等摆。花仙图案也在DIY的立体纸雕和十字绣等出现。

In 1924, the family moved into a four-level, semi-detached Victorian house at 23 The Waldrons.

第二次世界大战爆发,世界上成百上千万的儿童流离失所,玛丽巴克的花仙子带着治愈的翅膀,从英国的伦敦飞到了世界各地。 玛丽巴克用一个花仙子的梦治愈了全世界的儿童。画中明丽的色彩,和欢乐的氛围,给予了每个孩子希望和憧憬。那些惨烈的画面逐渐淡没在她的画中。

童年时,Cicely非常喜欢Kate Greenaway插画中的仙女,喜欢画精灵花仙。她的花仙是一群有着各色蝴蝶翅膀的人间儿童,带着笑意在花丛中嬉戏。无论画的是哪个季节,画面色彩总是带着旧气的暖色调,一如深藏人心的美好传说。

疾病使她不能像其他的孩子一样,到学校里去读书。病中的玛丽巴克,渴望享受集体生活和知识殿堂带来的心灵愉悦。

但生活的残酷让这个愿望成为了她一生不能实现的一个梦想。她的父亲,钟情绘画,是croydon艺术团的成员。良好的家庭熏陶,给予了玛丽巴克最好的绘画启蒙,父亲为她请了家庭女教师,玛丽巴克得以在家中完成学业。

此时玛丽巴克喜欢上了凯特.格里纳韦(Kate Greenaway)的童书插画,她被这位维多利亚时代最著名的插画师,图文并茂的绘画形式吸引,同时内心被这些画的清新优雅感染。

玛丽巴克喜欢绘画,疾病使她不能拥有自由的童年,绘画却以另一种形式打开了她心灵深处的另一扇大门。她的脑海中总是飘飞着一些美丽的精灵,他们长着美丽的翅膀,在花间飞舞,他们都有阳光灿烂的容颜,在玩耍嬉戏,天真烂漫。这可能是世界上最动人的图画了!玛丽巴克开始了她的花仙子人生之旅。她想把这些精灵画了下来。父亲支持她的想法,带她到一所专业学校,学习了一段时间。

热爱让玛丽巴克忘却了病痛,花中的精灵们在她的笔下一个个诞生。他们的眼睛里映上世界的甜美,他们和她似乎在说话,感谢她把他们创造的这么美,他们也向看过他们的人们询问为什么你不开心,他们告诉这个世界,快乐是人生的源泉。

1973年2月16日,Mary Barker 在她的故乡逝世。直到现在全世界都还在使用这些花仙子的梦境。皮包,陶瓷,琉璃,花仙子们永恒的治愈着世界。

这就是玛丽巴克的故事,命运给予了她缺陷,她却用深情相拥治愈了全世界,让她和别人都成为完美。那么以此献给玛丽巴克和她的花仙子吧!

原文链接:

Cicely Mary Barker - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

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参考文献 Bibliography

Laing, Jane (1995), Cicely Mary Barker and Her Art, Frederick Warne & Co., ISBN 0-7232-4051-5